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If You're Playing Someone Who's Impeded By Fear, Or Shyness, Or Has Whatever Dysfunction Your Character Might Have, You Have To Achieve The Dysfunction First, Imaginatively, In Order To Play Someone Who Is Trying To Negotiate Their Way Out Of It.

Some People Come Up To Be Directors By Coming Through The Camera Department And There's Not A Lot Of Women In The Camera Department. The Ones That Are Have To Kind Of Prove They're One Of The Boys, I Think. I Don't Want To Get Into Trouble With Generalisations But I Think It's A Fair Observation.

Just Driving I Just Was In A Car On Flat Ground And I Couldn't Make It Go. Having Ticked Driving And Taken Three Driving Lessons, I Just Was Unable To Produce Any Motion Whatsoever Under Perfectly Normal Circumstances. I Think We've All Been Busted On Driving, And Riding.

The Skill Of A Good Actor Is To Make It Always Seem Like You're In That Fantastically Spontaneous Moment. Very Often, A Stand-up Comedian Has A Different Instinct, Which Is To Reinvent. Once You've Laid Down Some Material, And Made Them Laugh, You Move On And Find Some New Material.

When I'm Really Into A Novel, I'm Seeing The World Differently During That Time— Not Just For The Hour Or So In The Day When I Get To Read. I'm Actually Walking Around In A Haze, Spellbound By The Book And Looking At Everything Through A Different Prism.